Crime Quote by Anonymous

“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most…

— Fredrik Backman

“Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It’s just something that I never want to experience.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I’m never ashamed of my words. My words are me and how I feel. If that’s a crime, then they should not have given…

— Scottie Waves

“There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object. (111)”

— JM Coetzee

“The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.”

— David McCullough

“And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would…

— Anonymous

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

“But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.…

— Marian Keyes

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”

— Gregory Boyle

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone”

— Milan Kundera

“They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.”

— Alethea Kontis